Happy New Year Chipsticks! Thank you so much for providing us this lovely place that made 2011 such a memorable year. I loved and appreciated your coverage of the President’s trips abroad, but especially the trips to India, Brazil, Ireland and Australia! I wish you could compile the clips shown on this space and send them to Willard Romney with the question: “Why do you think that President Obama, who is so loved throughout the world, will become a footnote in history?” If I had Willard’s money, I would bet him a million dollars, that he (Willard (Mitt) Romney) will never, and I mean never, attain the level of international acclaim, love and respect, comparable to that of President Obama. I don’t even care who he employs to hold his chair when he speaks. Willard Romney would never measure up to PBO! PERIOD!

HAPPY 2012 to all TOD family! Join your OFA neighborhood team and do whatever you’re good at to make sure we re-elect President Obama. We should totally find a place to meet up during Inauguration Weekend in a little over a year.

So, I have a little over a thousand photos on my iPad, reckon at least 900 of them are of POTUS, FLOTUS, VPOTUS and Bo (many thanks to you, Chips!)….. Feeling like I will take them all off, clean start for 2012…. Let’s rock and roll all the way to Election Day!

I TOO AM READY…ME AND MY FAMILY,AND FREINDS (GOT LOTS OF THEM TOO) STAND WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA AND VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN AND ALL OF THIS ADMINSTRATION…PRESS ON!!!!!
LETS STAY FOCUSED….WE’RE GONNA WIN!!!!

Happy New Year Everyone! may God bless and keep you all! I love this site, and how everyone here seems to be part of a great big family….2012…Time to REALLY get started….GAME ON! Obama/Biden 2012….Choosing Progress over Nonsense!

This is good! I have been begging for months for someone to make a 2012 Obama collage to the Luther Vandross original of this song, but I have to say I like this ‘new’ version as the participants are more reflective of PBO’s audiences. I wonder who will grant my dreams? The beginning of 2012 is actually an ideal time to cement this as a ‘theme’ song. Any takers among our TOD techno/vido wizards?

♪♪Ain’t no stopping us now. We’re on the move.♪♪
♪♪Ain’t no stopping us now, ,,,,,
……

Singing happily because my offspring is fortunately not around to tell me ‘That’s not what they’re singing, Mom” or ‘That’s not how it goes.’ – A regular habit in infancy when we were in church together. ;(

I don’t believe anyone has yet shared Smartypants’ post on the National Defence Authorization Act (NDAA), and it highlights a couple of important points that’s to our advantage to be aware of. Check it out.

Yes, it’s very good. It was so good in fact, that I basically pasted the entire post over at The People’s VIew…they have a troll that because PBO signed NDAA, that he is Hitler. Seriously? A clicked on his avatar and saw that he’s a “disgruntled Dem that supports Mike Gravel and Ron Paul….” What the fuck ever. You know, they hear what they WANT to hear, see what they WANT to see….Facts be damned!
Anyone want to join the fun over there?

People have NO CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS. My pet peeve. I don’t have to have everyone I meet agree with me, but I DO need for them to be able to take all the info available to them , weigh pros and cons and think things through in a logical way. That doesn’t seem to be in abundance.Instead, they ignore the parts that are inconvenient truths to further their grand delusions.

My pleasure guys. 😆 We have to keep each other on top of the facts so that we can be effective in putting the TRUTH out there when the opportunities arise. IMO SP always does a good job with analysis and with resourcing her arguments, and she sometimes touches on areas others haven’t yet, or with a slightly different, or more clarified viewpoint.

I happen to believe that in 2012 serious Pres O supporters are going to join hands across the blogosphere in a meaningful way to shut out the naysayers with truth – just the FACTS. My dream is that very few [if any] of us will be as derailed by red herring commentators as we were this year; that we will brush them off quickly a la Pres O, and counter with the facts in a mature, calm, ‘professional’ way. Show the pundits or faux journalists how to do their jobs in fact. 😛

So bring on 2012! OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
YES. WE. CAN. YES WE MUST. YES WE WILL! …………It’s no exaggeration to say our future is at stake.

Oh where oh where did my comments go??? I’m going to persevere and post again—-
Final Des Moines Register Poll—-Romney 24, Paul 22, Santorum 15, Gingrich 12, Perry 11, Bachmann 7
If the final 2 days of polling were the only consideraton, Santorum moved into 2nd place with 21 with Paul dropping to 3rd place—–Romney remained at 24.
41% said they could change mind.

Dotster, I had one of my earlier comments go for a cyber walk, right after and before another posted just fine. So it wasn’t because I wasn’t logged in. I ignored it and it later appeared and slotted itself into the right spot. Go figure! Press on,😉

Oh Dotster, I don’t know what’s happening, I found a lot of your comments in pending. Soooooooo sorry, I’ll check the banned list on the blog (ie Fire/Teabaggers) and see if one of the ‘keywords’ on the list is causing the problem. Sorry again.

No play, in_deed, just massive victory for our Republic is the only goal. I included all of these in a letter to President Obama indicating these are just a little taste of the support he will receive during 2012.

I post the following video for those of us (myself included…) who don’t know some of the things that have happened in this country, these United States of America, that we love so deeply.

I don’t want it to be a “downer” I want it to be a MOTIVATOR for why we must fight about voter suppression, why we must work to get health care for ALL, why we must support REAL PUBLIC EDUCATION FOR ALL, and most of all, why we must love one another, to work thru our problems and differences.

Happy New Year for 2012!! Celebrate! But also remember that we have SO MUCH WORK TO DO!! Fired UP!

Thank you for this video. I saw them preform this live and I don’t know if there was a dry eye in the house. It’s not a downer, as you say. It’s a reminder and it’s a call to action to stop these Republican legislatures from denying people the right to vote.

Happy New Year all!!!! I don’t know about you all but I have the best feeling about this coming year. Not just in the respects that PBO/VPOTUS will be re-elected but about everything. Just life in general. This is just not that oh you are supposed to be happy on New Year’s Eve feeling but that it is going to get a HELL of a lot better for everyone period. Does anyone feel me???

Happy and a BLESSED New Year to Chips and everyone in TODVILLE.
I’m so FIRED UP and READY to GO that it hurts🙂 Just did my final donation for
2011 after my President sent out his email. With much prayers and hard work we will
get this done for PBO in 2012. Love you all.

Happy New Year TOD. As I heard just a few days ago, may your best day be the worst of your new year, or something like that. On my way to celebrate with friends, then I’m up early to fix brunch for family. God bless and keep you all, and most of all, behave😀 And mucho blessings to our First Family for a successful new year. Peace !!

G. Greenwald is sick—–I can’t even repeat what he’s saying about Obama now on twitter—-but he is one sick doggy. I think it’s safe to say that he has a deep hate of Obama. He should be banned from posting.

I saw his vile “analogy” but don’t let that skunk get us down. We’ve got work to do. Let him stew in his own bile. My theory about his obsessive irrational hatred for PBO goes even a step further than Chips’ but I will behave on this lovely New Year’s Eve.

Hi all. Just left a long post in the previous thread wishing you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR from the UK where we are 48 minutes into 2012!

Have a good one and don’t forget ‘4 more for 44’!

Just got back from our friends where we saw in the new year, we had a great time! going to bed now as I am still exhausted from last night’s little excursion to the emergency room. I really do not want a repeat of that so I am taking it easy for the next few days. Will be lurking and commenting here a little more in my enforced rest time.
God bless you all.

Thank you isonprize for that video. I love Sweet Honey On The Rock. It definitely was not a downer. I needed to reflect ans that just brought so s joy and pain(that is what we must endure). It is why we must not let this moment pass us by to re-elect President Obama. A lot of lives were sacrificed to be able to vote in these United States. In hindsight, I was a teenager in southern Ga. When SNCC marched in the brutal sun. As young as I was, I knew it was the right thing to do. I a having a difficult time understanding why these young people are endorsing Ron Paul.

My racism meter is high when it comes to this looney tune. If they would take the time to listen to really listen and not go with his tickling their ears it what they WANT to hear, I.e. less government, legalize pot., when the smoke has cleared what surfaces is an “old racist”. The worse kind because they refuse to change and their hearts are fixed on hate.

As planet Earth rang in the new year, a different kind of countdown was happening at the moon.

After a 3 ½-month journey, a NASA spacecraft flew over the moon’s south pole, fired its engine and dropped into orbit Saturday in the first of two back-to-back arrivals over the New Year’s weekend.

Mission control at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory erupted in cheers and applause after receiving confirmation that the probe was healthy and circling the moon. An engineer was seen on closed-circuit television blowing a noisemaker to herald the New Year’s Eve arrival.

Chica, Happy New Year, you wonderful blog hostess, you!!! I wish you all the best in the year 2012, And the best of the best for this lovely haven of Obama Love that you have created on the interwebs. I know, I know, you are all humble and everything.

But you really do the best job of showing the latest pictures, creating a place where folks can bring information, share ideas, have friendly disagreements and even swoon over the good looking man that is our President. Most of all, though, you provide a place of common sense, decency, and unwavering support for the President of the United States.

I, for one, plan to work my tail off to get this man re-elected. I may even slack off my addiction to TOD. It’s hard to post and make phone calls at the same time!! 😆

iPad is a little too helpful sometimes with its amazing speed and predictive text, but you two will soon become synthetic, it will travel with you everywhere, and you will LOVE it, appreciating Steve Jobs more and more and more for making our communication simpler. Don’t forget to download the Kindle iPad App, it is super! Just have fun!

Hi Jovie, too bad the aircraft could not stop in Iowa and picked up the whole lot of the clown car and leave them. Thank you for all the information that you bring here to this blog. I hope to meet you at the 2012 Inauguration.

Happy New Year my TOD Family. I am spending the night with my Mom in her new senior govt subsidized apartment. I am soooooo thankful to my government that helps the elderly live in a clean safe apartment and I gladly pay my taxes so that the youngsters get an education, get good jobs, who will pay taxes to take care of their elderly population (one day it will be me being taken care of).

I am Fired UP to support my President and Vice President for a second term. I donated to President Obama yesterday and to Chips and Donna today and until November 2012!

A happy, safe and fulfilling New Year to the entire The Obama Diary crew.

I just sent off the year 2011 with a little something for Donna’s page, a little something for Chipstick’s page and a little something for Elizabeth Warren’s page. There is something affirming about countering the noise and nonsense coming from Mitt Romney, the listless media, Newt Paul, Ron Gingrich, the Governor of Jersey Shore, libertarian pundits posing as lefties and idol winners posing as informed voters.

Goodbye to the noise that was 2011. Hello 2012, the year that hosts the second term of the greatest President, the greatest First Lady, the greatest Veep, the greatest First Daughters, greatest First Pup and the greatest First Supporters in my lifetime.

As we discussed a few months ago, some polls matter more than others. In Iowa, the Des Moines Register’s Iowa Poll is widely considered the gold standard for Hawkeye State polling, and therefore gets considerably more attention than other surveys in the state.

And with that in mind, and the caucuses just a few days, here’s what the race for the Republican presidential nomination looks like in Iowa:

After coming out in support of voter ID laws and donating to Republicans, former Democratic Rep. Artur Davis is continuing his march to the other side of the aisle, telling the Washington Post he could run for office as an independent or even a GOP candidate.

“I’ve heard some people at the national level encouraging me to run as an independent for my old office,” Davis told WaPo’s Aaron Blake. “While there have been Democrats who have switched down there, the Republican Party has refused to accept them. Do I agree with the agenda items in the Alabama Republican Party? Some I agree with, and some I don’t.”

Davis has claimed voter fraud is a major problem and said he’s seen it take place, though he’s repeatedly declined opportunities to back up his broad claims with specific allegations. Conservatives have used his change of heart to justify strict restrictions that most voting rights advocates agree could keep mostly Democratic-leaning voters from casting a ballot.

“If you think I made it up, you’re entitled to do that, and if you think there’s no credibility and I just made it up because I had nothing to do some day, that’s your prerogative,” Davis previously told TPM.

It’s been an eventful ride….thank you Chips for providing the bus!. Wishing all TODers a very happy, prosperous, healthy and successful 2012!!.
The dress rehearsals are now over…the bombing run starts at the stroke of midnight. Let’s all rededicate and reenergize ourselves to the one thing that matters in 2012…reelecting Barack Obama and Joe Biden for another 4 year term.
Stay safe tonight.

I love to see 2 men of standards , the quote bring it on reminds me of the cheerleader movies. They brought it on and won , so you know what that means . Double time . I just love Mr. President and Mr. Vice president . The movie Men in black comes to mind also . Go get those monsters .